i10 Productivity
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Africa Social Sciences / Linguistics and Literature i10 Productivity Rankings 2025
Productivity Rankings is an exclusive service provided by AD Scientific Index. This ranking system, derived from the i10 index, highlights the productivity of scientists in publishing impactful scientific articles. Productivity Rankings serves as a tool to identify highly productive scientists across specific areas, disciplines, universities, and countries, and supports the creation of effective incentives and academic policies. The global, regional, and institutional rankings of scientists in this table are calculated based on their total i10 index. Moreover, you can explore special rankings derived from Productivity Rankings, such as Scientists Last 6 Years' i10 Index, Universities Total i10 Index Rankings 2025, Universities Last 6 Years' i10 Index Rankings 2025, Art and Humanities i10 Productivity Rankings, and Social Sciences and Humanities i10 Productivity Rankings.
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
English language
Language in South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
121
68
0.562
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
linguistics
multilingualism
anthroplogy
philosophy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83
60
0.723
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Lexicography
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65
17
0.262
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Oriental Languages
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
41
0.651
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Academic literacy
Language testing
Language assessment
Theory of applied linguistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
38
0.603
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Sociolinguistics
linguistic anthropology
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
41
0.672
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
Bantu linguistics
Multimodality
Language Policy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
41
0.672
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Premodern Hebrew linguistics
Bible translation
Religious translation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
22
0.361
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
recherche scientifique
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55
22
0.400
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
orality performance and literature
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52
16
0.308
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
AI
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Smart Grid
Medical Image Analysis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50
49
0.980
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Linguistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49
19
0.388
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Linguistic Typology
African languages
Semitic languages
Cognitive linguistics
Anthrozoology
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47
21
0.447
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
social semiotics
multimodal communication
academic literacies
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
32
0.744
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Chronicles
Persian period biblical literature
Ezra-Nehemiah
Multilingualism in Achaemenid Persia
Levite discourse
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
12
0.286
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
littérature
critique littéraire
narratologie
cinéma
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41
19
0.463
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Computer science
deep learning
computer vision
natural language processing
human activity recognition
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
40
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Languages and Literacies (Reading Literacy
Multilingualism
translanguaging
World Englishes
Language Policy & Planning)
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
31
0.775
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
reading
additional language learning
vocabulary
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
29
0.725
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Literacy
language
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39
25
0.641
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Applied linguistics/ Language assessment
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37
29
0.784
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Syntax
Bantu grammar
Psycholinguistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37
25
0.676
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Anthropological Linguistics
Morphosyntax
Language and Identity
Language and Sexuality
Youth lang
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
31
0.861
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
South African literature
translation
whiteness studies
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
12
0.333
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Education
Multilingual Education
Applied Linguistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35
23
0.657
Rajend Mesthrie
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
121
68
0.562
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
English language
Language in South Africa
Christopher Stroud
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83
60
0.723
linguistics
multilingualism
anthroplogy
philosophy
Dj Prinsloo
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65
17
0.262
Mohamed Saleh 2
Assiut University
Asyut, Egypt
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
41
0.651
Albert Weideman
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
38
0.603
Academic literacy
Language testing
Language assessment
Theory of applied linguistics
Ana Deumert
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
41
0.672
Sociolinguistics
linguistic anthropology
Felix Banda
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
41
0.672
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
Bantu linguistics
Multimodality
Language Policy
Jacobus Naude
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
22
0.361
Premodern Hebrew linguistics
Bible translation
Religious translation
Benalla Hocine
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55
22
0.400
Elizabeth Gunner
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52
16
0.308
orality performance and literature
Mohamed Abdel Nasser
Aswan University
Aswan, Egypt
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50
49
0.980
AI
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Smart Grid
Medical Image Analysis
Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
University of Ghana
Legon, Ghana
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49
19
0.388
Alexander Andrason
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47
21
0.447
Linguistic Typology
African languages
Semitic languages
Cognitive linguistics
Anthrozoology
Arlene Hillary Archer
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
32
0.744
social semiotics
multimodal communication
academic literacies
Louis C. Jonker|Louis Jonker, L.C. Jonker
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
12
0.286
Chronicles
Persian period biblical literature
Ezra-Nehemiah
Multilingualism in Achaemenid Persia
Levite discourse
Hafedh Mnif
Université de Sfax
Sfax, Tunisia
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41
19
0.463
littérature
critique littéraire
narratologie
cinéma
Abdelghani Dahou
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
40
1.000
Computer science
deep learning
computer vision
natural language processing
human activity recognition
Leketi Makalela
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
31
0.775
Languages and Literacies (Reading Literacy
Multilingualism
translanguaging
World Englishes
Language Policy & Planning)
Lilli Pretorius
University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
29
0.725
reading
additional language learning
vocabulary
Mastin Prinsloo
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39
25
0.641
Asma Maaoui
Université de Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37
29
0.784
Applied linguistics/ Language assessment
Jochen Zeller
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37
25
0.676
Syntax
Bantu grammar
Psycholinguistics
Eyo O. Mensah
University of Calabar
Calabar, Nigeria
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
31
0.861
Anthropological Linguistics
Morphosyntax
Language and Identity
Language and Sexuality
Youth lang
Leon De Kock
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
12
0.333
South African literature
translation
whiteness studies
Christa Van Der Walt
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35
23
0.657
Education
Multilingual Education
Applied Linguistics